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13/02/2025

Need a last minute valentines card? Don’t worry, we have some beautiful cards by !

30/01/2025

Gaza Cola!!!

Have you tried this Cola () yet? It’s 100% Palestinian owned, 100% apartheid free, and 100% of the profits go to rebuilding hospitals in Gaza.

Oh and it tastes great! Try it next time you come and see us :) 🕊🇵🇸

17/05/2024

Adventures on a Desert Island, Maciej Sieńczyk

Woken up from a catastrophic dream, a man finds a diary behind his front door and starts to read it. He follows a story of a man who embarked on a cruise to Africa. The ship was sunk by a tsunami but he survived and found himself on a mysterious desert island. The plot is composed of strange stories whose peculiar character is highlighted by the author’s stylised language.

A journey into the unknown provides an opportunity to show the true face of modern man whose life remains unchanged even after a disaster. There is an inherent fallibility to Sieńczyk’s characters, as well as inability and unwillingness to change. Stranded on a desert island, they don’t take any action – they simply recount incredible stories and wait to be carried along by the tides of fate.

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⏰ 12-6PM
📆 Tues-Sat
📍 Centrala

13/05/2024

the modernist magazine issue #40 KUDOS

Buy here: https://centrala-shop.co.uk/products/the-modernist-magazine-issue-40-kudos

⏰ 12-6PM
📆 Tues-Sat
📍 Centrala

11/05/2024

Tuff Ladies 24 Remarkable Women of History - Till Lukat

A glimpse into the ordinary to the insane everyday lives of TUFF LADIES throughout the ages. This book is a collection of stories from extraordinary women who had something worth fighting for. From the Samurai and gunslingers of the wild west to a girl who makes her stand against the Taliban. These ladies will break your heart or your nose and they definitely break all the rules.

Buy here: https://bit.ly/4bvT9GJ

⏰ 12-6PM
📆 Tues-Sat
📍 Centrala

09/05/2024

Romanian Socialist Modernist : Black Sea Littoral by Horia Brebeneanu

Horia is a regular visitor to Modernist HQ and an interesting conversation is always ensured. Out of one of these conversations we learnt that he had been making Polaroid pictures of sea side resorts back in his native Romania. Along with this he was also collecting vintage slides of the same resorts, sold as souvenirs when the resorts were at the height of their popularity.

Subsequently we organised a Show and Tell event at Modernist HQ were Horia talked about the development of these state built resorts and their demise after the fall of Communism. Such was the richness of the story, the vintage slides and Horia’s own Polaroids we decided to collect them in a photobook.

This evocative volume shows a country many of us will be unfamiliar with and a level of state control many of us could never imagine. There is also an an air of utopia about the vintage slides and concurrently a sense of faded glory with the contemporary Polaroids.

⏰ 12-6PM
📆 Tues-Sat
📍 Centrala

19/04/2024

Slavic folklore passes on stories on various colourful creatures, from mighty gods to tiny spirits. They live in forests and occupy households. They have shape shifting abilities. They’re moody and unpredictable.

The “Slavic Mythology” project started in 2020 with an online series under the graceful name ‘Slavtober’. Now, at last, it’s a magical art book combining illustrations, symbols and original writings, which will introduce deities and demons of Slavic mythology.

This book introduces 16 Slavic folklore creatures together with their stories (some of them well known, some of them almost forgotten) and is probably one of few Slavic publications like this in English.

This is the 2nd edition of the book, with refined details and updated text.

Written and illustrated by: Kamila Krol

Make sure to pop into our shop and get them before they're gone! If you are unable to make it to us in person, don't worry, we're online too https://bit.ly/43sXZAV

17/04/2024

Adventures in the Land of Modernism

Take a trip around the world from east to west and back again. Stop off at various locations where you can find interesting pockets of Modernism.

Seventeen correspondents share personal experiences of their travels.

1. Gdynia - Jameson Kergozou

2. Belgium - Connely/Steele

3. Salgótarján - Dr Luca Csepely-Knorr

4. Viewmasters - Jon Riley

5. Belgrade - Richard Brook

6. E1027 - Sarah Hyde

7. Munich - Eddy Rhead

8. Viet Nam - Mel Schenk

9. Basel - Sarah Feeney

10. Melbourne - Aly Stevenson

11. Vancouver - Nicole Sylvia

12. Barcelona - Monk Kollektiv

13. Chandigarh - David Quinn

14. Tallinn - Aidan Turner Bishop

15. Toronto - Gerard Barry

16. Poznan - Peter Halliday

17. Bangkok - Laura Phelps

So take a trip to magical Modernist lands - be inspired and pack your swimming trunks - we are off on our Adventures in Land of Modernism.

Beautifully designed by Jonathan Hitchen in Manchester

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15/04/2024

100 Pages of beautifully smooth, lined, music sheet paper – covered with a gorgeous, textured and thick FSC GF Smith Paper. Made in the UK, Kinshipped notebooks are not only sustainable, but perfect flat lay fodder.

Make sure to pop into our shop and get them before they're gone! If you are unable to make it to us in person, don't worry, we're online too https://bit.ly/43sXZAV

13/04/2024

Bosla Arts publication Issue #3: The Brink uncovers the work of seven Ukrainian artists as they navigate the profound impact of Russia's full-blown invasion of Ukraine on their work. Curated by Bosla Arts’ artist-in-residence, Olga Tkachenko, this magazine serves as a testament to the profound impact of war on the artists but also the eruption of unity and community by the Ukrainian people since the invasion.

Featured artists: Mitya Fenechkin, Jenya Polosina, Denys Shymanskyi, Serhii Siviakov, Olga Tkachenko, Kostiantyn Zorkin, Olha Zhurba. Supported by The David and Reva Logan Foundation.

Bosla Arts actively seek to support artists worldwide who are facing / confronting oppressive forces through their work, while drawing on their experiences to raise and spread awareness to the UK public.

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11/04/2024

The Final Curtain by Darren Holden takes us on a poignant journey to former 'palaces of the people' - showing little of their former glamour and luxury, with most now in a perilous and decrepit state.

From former grand theatres right up to 'modern' multiplexes - it is probably better to grab a hard hat rather than a bag of popcorn as we have a peek behind 'The Final Curtain' of the golden age of cinema.

Make sure to pop into our shop and get them before they're gone! If you are unable to make it to us in person, don't worry, we're online too https://bit.ly/43sXZAV

09/04/2024

British born Lucy McLauchlan makes site-responsive prints and large scale paintings that have covered multi-stories throughout Europe, gigantic billboards in Guangzhou, gallerias in Japan, buildings in The Gambia, public gardens of London, Rome and Moscow, Italian water towers, a Norwegian lighthouse, Detroit car park and abandoned NYC subway tunnels. Established from a DIY background with Matthew Watkins (aka Beat13) she draws inspiration from her immediate environment, allowing it to inform and direct what is an intuitive and explorative process.

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